A
Andrew Diamond
All I have to do to reproduce this is to turn the proxy on in IE6 and
repeatedly launch and close IE6. Eventually the launched ie6 will hang. If
I wait long enough (10 minutes) some of the windows elements will draw. It
won't shut down and furthermore effectively hangs the entire win2k OS. Even
the task manager won't come up (neither will any other app) and so I have to
hit the reset button.
If I bypass the proxy from IE6 then I never see this problem.
I am running Win2k SP4 and Proxomitron 4.5 and IE6.1 with the latest stuff.
I am running the identical setup on another computer and don't see this
problem.
I've tried turning off all active X stuff, etc.
Notes:
I don't know if its necessary for me to close the IE6 window to get this
problem.
The hang will occur randomly between the 1st and say 5th time I launch IE6.
No other apps need be l launched.
My home page is my yahoo page. That's where it would hang upon launch of
IE6
I am using the default config file for Proxomitron
I do run zonealarm on that computer but I can reproduce the problem without
zonealarm.
If I put up a process viewer before trying the experiment I don't see a
suspicious process that is consuming lots of CPU time. (I can't do this
after the hang because nothing will run after that!). The process viewer
still seems to update after the "hang"
I use the term "hang" but the computer is still marginally working in some
way. The mouse moves, etc. I thought that perhaps something is sucking up
so much time that nothing else could launch but as I wrote above the process
viewer doesn't indicate that.
This is on my wife's machine and apparently this has been going on for some
time. I was having a problem with MS Windows Update hot fix KB835732 where
it would bring that system to its knees before even loading windows but I
removed that patch, as suggested in a news post, and that worked fine (so
this isn't that problem).
Thanks in advance,
Andy
repeatedly launch and close IE6. Eventually the launched ie6 will hang. If
I wait long enough (10 minutes) some of the windows elements will draw. It
won't shut down and furthermore effectively hangs the entire win2k OS. Even
the task manager won't come up (neither will any other app) and so I have to
hit the reset button.
If I bypass the proxy from IE6 then I never see this problem.
I am running Win2k SP4 and Proxomitron 4.5 and IE6.1 with the latest stuff.
I am running the identical setup on another computer and don't see this
problem.
I've tried turning off all active X stuff, etc.
Notes:
I don't know if its necessary for me to close the IE6 window to get this
problem.
The hang will occur randomly between the 1st and say 5th time I launch IE6.
No other apps need be l launched.
My home page is my yahoo page. That's where it would hang upon launch of
IE6
I am using the default config file for Proxomitron
I do run zonealarm on that computer but I can reproduce the problem without
zonealarm.
If I put up a process viewer before trying the experiment I don't see a
suspicious process that is consuming lots of CPU time. (I can't do this
after the hang because nothing will run after that!). The process viewer
still seems to update after the "hang"
I use the term "hang" but the computer is still marginally working in some
way. The mouse moves, etc. I thought that perhaps something is sucking up
so much time that nothing else could launch but as I wrote above the process
viewer doesn't indicate that.
This is on my wife's machine and apparently this has been going on for some
time. I was having a problem with MS Windows Update hot fix KB835732 where
it would bring that system to its knees before even loading windows but I
removed that patch, as suggested in a news post, and that worked fine (so
this isn't that problem).
Thanks in advance,
Andy